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What you did/experience last night?
After the Pandemic, outage of FB, WhatsApp, and Instagram was observed by many of us. I am curious about what happened last night, what did you do or how did you feel about it ?
- LandR 5y agoI didn't know until I happened to read about it on HackerNews. Nothing in my life changed whatsoever.
- aviral 5y agoInteresting. Is it because you use some other social media ?
- LandR 5y agoI don't use any of the large social media sites. I don't use Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram etc. I think they all need to die. I don't feel my life is any worse off because of not being on these platforms.
- aviral 5y agoVery Interesting, even I am trying to disconnect social media for a while. I think I will try to disconnect more frequently. Yesterday felt really good to be always from always online life.
- jstx1 5y agoIt's better to just ask people about their experience and not to lead them with the question, not to exaggerate and assume they got disconnected from the world, not to call a website outage a global phenomenon. Otherwise it comes across as manipulative - it's like you're telling people what their experience was and only pretending that you're asking a question.
- aviral 5y agoSure, It makes sense. I will restate it
- dalmo3 5y agoI felt some discomfort. It may be time to buy a new pillow.
- cpach 5y agoI felt a bit restless but it wasn’t really a big thing for me.
- aviral 5y agoYa, we still have other options to connect. But one thing I experienced sometime back. These days we don't store contact number as we are connected on Social Media. I had hard time connecting with my old friends. I had to call a lot of other friends to connect with him.
- thisistesla 5y agoDrank too much water. Had to get up thrice to pee.
- aviral 5y agohahaha!! I sent international SMS to friends. Spent money to be online haha
- aviral 5y agoNot for nothing but in many places — including Israel and Palestine — WhatsApp is used as the de facto phone and text messaging platform. Ostensibly, a utility is down right now for millions of people. The billionth reason to break down and regulate Facebook. - Abraham Gutman https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1445124247005933573 https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1445124247005933573
- arduinomancer 5y agoI’m don’t really like Facebook but I don’t really get this argument. How is it facebook’s fault that regular SMS is so bad in these countries that their platform is preferable? What’s stopping the government from launching their own platform if they want a utility? And why is it that if you make a product that ends up really popular then suddenly you’re a utility?
- sethammons 5y agoNear zero impact on my life. Talked with one of my kids about it for a few minutes and about how we almost did the same thing to ourselves a couple of years back. So last night, I worked an hour or so on a pond I'm rehabbing, watched some tv with the wife, and fell asleep rather early so I could wake up early and work out.
- aviral 5y agoThis is so amazing to read that people are doing something interesting other than just being online.
- jamil7 5y agoHadn’t noticed until I read some news about it this morning, I use HN and occasionally reddit. For messaging I deleted Whatsapp this year and use Telegram, Signal and iMessage.
- aviral 5y agoMost of the people in this thread are not using FB social media that is really interesting. Like people have already started making distance with social media and use internet for something productive.
- potta_coffee 5y agoI went to BJJ class (Brazilian Jiu Jitsu) and had a blast making real friends in meatspace, then laughed when my wife told me about how FB was down when I got home. I gave up on social media years ago, it's toxic trash.
- aviral 5y agoThis is so interesting. I think you right there will be turn around and people would love to disconnect and live a offline life.
- thorin 5y agoI did wonder whether it might turn into something more significant, but it didn't. I was also curious about how long it would last, as it was quite a long outage. I mainly contact my ex wife through WhatsApp and a lot of school/ parent communication goes through there. Some of my social groups are organised through fb.
- runjake 5y agoI didn't know they were down at the time because I don't use any of it.
- mikewarot 5y agoI was concerned it might have been the quiet start of WWIII, a cyberattack aimed at a chunk of US infrastructure... I was worried Google and the rest would quickly follow in going offline. I gave it about a 5% chance of it being that, and 95% of a clusterf*ck at Facebook.
- coretx 5y agoThe internet is literally designed to survive WWIII. Your concerns about the US infrastructure is not incorrect but a management issue, not a technical one. In case of large scale BGP attacks much will go down but big ISP's like google will simply drop all non rpki routes and naughty neighbours & continue life per usual. Perhaps such a attack should happen as this would force everyone to have their shit in order resulting in the likes of you having peace of mind instead of valid concerns.
- mikewarot 5y agoThe internet is NOT designed to survive a war, that's a urban myth. The first thing that would happen in such an event would be the deployment of the stash of Zero day exploits that every major power has saved up for the occasion. December 7, 1941 was a peaceful Sunday, until it wasn't. February 26, 1993 was just another Friday, until it wasn't. September 11, 2001 was just another Tuesday, until it wasn't. I was only a bit worried, but these type of events have a non-zero probability.
- coretx 5y agoThat would be yet another MAD scenario, so that's not going to happen. ( And black swan events always can ) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mutual_assured_destruction